In case you weren’t able to attend, or if you did and would like to relive the weekend, here are videos from each team’s final presentation. Take a look for yourself and let us know which of these findings best fit your work and goals.

Scraping Websites to Collect Consumption and Price Data
Using a software technique for extracting data from websites, the presentation by Team Ndizi, which means banana in Swahili, unearthed data sources on food prices and consumption of bananas and rice in Kenya, as well as Indonesia. The team hopes that this analysis will serve as a faster and easier estimate of inflation.

Measuring Socioeconomic Indicators in Arabic Tweets
This team explored approaches to inferring socioeconomic status from tweets in Arabic. The team also looked at whether socioeconomic indicators can be identified by observing conversations in Arabic on Twitter. Examples include listening for poverty terms or human development phrases such as “no medicine”, “bankrupt”, or “bad education.”

Analyzing World Bank Supplier Profiles
This team analyzed detailed profiles of World Bank suppliers to understand their relationships and potentially identify suppliers who might be at high risk of fraud.

UNDP Resource Allocation
The United Nations Development Programme (UNPD) examined the relationship between the composition of its workforce and program performance, using expenditure data to estimate correlations between workforce characteristics and performance.

Evaluating Project Performance and Outcome
This project uses data to identify and evaluate performance, and analyzes whether development project objectives are being met. The findings reflect that while roughly 75 percent of projects meet the baseline standards, about $10-12 billion a year of projects do not achieve objectives and/or are not meeting expectations.

Welcome!

This blog is a forum for discussing development data issues and open access to data. Open access to data is a key part of the World Bank's commitment to sharing our knowledge to improve people's lives.

Subscribe by email

E-mail: *

Enter your email below to receive email notifications when new content is posted